East campus building 4 (ECB4), fort george G. Meade, maryland

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District (NAB), East Campus Integrated Program Office (ECIPO) issues this pre-solicitation notice for a fixed price award fee (FPAF) design-build (DB) construction contract. This proposed procurement is Full and Open Competition (Unrestricted); NAICS 236220 "Commercial and Institutional Building Construction" with a size standard of $39,500,000.00.

Project Description: The project consists of constructing a new State-of-the-Art operations facility at approximately 858,000 gross square feet (GSF) in size including supporting facilities with associated site work and environmental measures.  The facility will be built on Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.  The primary facility will be comprised of a multi-story structure with full basement.  The facility includes open office areas, operations areas, collaboration spaces, food market, fitness center and remote learning/unclassified VTC areas. The mission support areas provide joint staff offices, executive offices, machine rooms, storage, and meeting rooms.

The project consists of core and shell structure and foundation; elevator conveyance systems; electrical/mechanical service and distribution components and systems; fire protection, alarm and suppression; information technology infrastructure, communications, and security support infrastructure; exterior finishes and weatherproofing.  Interior build out will provide raised access floor systems, acoustically-rated interior partitions and ceilings, power, lighting, environmental control and communications.  The primary facility is not a standard design.  The majority of the structure will be built to Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) standards.  Project includes redundant primary power and Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) systems to ensure continuity of operations.  This project requires comprehensive interior design.

Site infrastructure will include primary electrical service to the site, water, sewer, and telecommunications pathways. The supporting facilities include, site preparation and telecommunication improvements, utility services, perimeter security measures.  Site preparation will include standard clearing, grubbing, cut, fill, grading and environmental protection structures.  Additional site work consists of curb and gutter, walkways, courtyards and roads.  Perimeter security reconstruction and extension is required with road improvements.

The project also includes a multi-level modular parking structure to support approximately 3,240 parking spaces with future expansion capability, pedestrian bridges connecting the adjoining East Campus User buildings and the parking structure and preparations for future bridge connection to potential future adjoining buildings.

The magnitude of construction is over $500,000,000.00. Construction duration is approximately 1016 calendar days from notice to proceed (NTP). 

Additional information in accordance with the statement of work will be included in the request for proposal (RFP) package.

This will be a Two Phase Design-Build contract utilizing the best value tradeoff process. An award will be made to the offeror whose proposal is determined to be the best value to the Government considering the evaluation factors. It is anticipated that Phase I will be released on or about September 18, 2020 with proposals due on or about November 2, 2020.

Phase I of the solicitation will be provided in an electronic format, free of charge, to all authenticated account holders of beta.SAM. To familiarize vendors with the system, please download the Vendor guide by logging into https://www.beta.sam.gov. The media through which the Government chooses to issue this solicitation will be the Internet only. This solicitation will not be issued in paper.

Interested PRIME CONTRACTORS are required to fill out a Statement of Affiliation (SOA) that will be issued with the Phase I solicitation. This document will be reviewed and approved by the security personnel; however submitted through USACE. A foreign interest is defined as any of the following:

1. A foreign government or foreign government agency;
2. Any form of business enterprise or legal entity organized, chartered or incorporated under the laws of any country other than the United States or its possessions;
3. Any individual who is not a U.S. citizen; or
4. Any form of business enterprise organized or incorporated under the laws of the U.S., or a State or other jurisdiction within the U.S. that is owned, controlled, or influenced by one of the entities described in 1, 2, or 3 above.

If the interested contractor should possess any of the above they will be required to submit a statement/letter of mitigation in order to explain their foreign interest for further review and approval.

SOAs shall be submitted for approval no later than one week from the date the Phase I solicitation is issued to ensure approved SOAs can be included in the final Phase I proposal. Interested contractors shall anticipate up to a two week Government review/process of SOAs.

While not required, interested Prime Contractors may submit SOAs for approval prior to the issuance of the Phase I solicitation to Sierra Marshall, Contract Specialist at email: Sierra.s.marshall@usace.army.mil. The SOA form can be found as an attachment to this notice.

Phase II of the solicitation will only be available to those offerors selected to advance to Phase II. It is anticipated that Phase II will be released on or about April 29, 2021 with proposals due on or about July 29, 2021 and award on or about January 24, 2022

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